I’ve found that virtually any painful-to-accomplish task can be automated away to some extent with the excellent (and recently Apple-acquired) Workflow app, so I’ve been pretty aggressive in creating an automated workflow as soon as I recognize a certain action is more awkward than necessary

Love that description, and I think for most people it’s not so much needing workflow as it is thinking a tad, shall we say, newly? Hmm, need to think of a catchier phrase there.